Steve Graham is a paediatrician based in Melbourne, Australia, who is Professor of International Child Health with the University Melbourne and senior principal research fellow with the Burnet Institute. He has many years of clinical and research experience in child and adolescent tuberculosis in African and Asia-Pacific regions. He is a chief investigator of the TB Centre of Research Excellence funded by the Australian NHMRC, a founding core member and past Chair of the WHO Stop TB Partnership’s Child and Adolescent TB Working Group and is a consultant on child TB and lung health with The Union. He has a particular interest in implementing and evaluating integrated strategies to detect, treat and prevent tuberculosis, including drug-resistant tuberculosis. Of relevance to this presentation, Steve has been involved in recent and ongoing studies of tuberculosis preventive treatment in child, adolescent and adult household contacts of people with multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis - in Viet Nam (co-investigator, V-QUIN), South Africa (chair of Trial Steering Committee, TB CHAMP) and Papua New Guinea (co-investigator, SWEEP).
